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Oops im a day late for this (according to Difford’s festal calendar), but enjoying nonetheless. Pick your favourite gin and vermouth, and enjoy! Very rich and layered, benefited from resting a little in the glass to warm and mellow. Old fashioned uncompromising flavours, strong 1:1 martini. I had it after something sweet, which was a mistake. I preferred the Joy Division, but will def be revisiting.

Kind of amazed how the 1:1 gin:vermouth and subtle additions of the other ingredients and their resultant blend seem to bring out the best of all. Cherry apparent up front, while the absinthe blooms in the finish. Unexpectedly tasty, dry, and vibrant.

Agree with the comments below. Brings together a lot of ingredients I like. If you don’t have your absinthe in a dasher, be careful. It’s easy to overdo it and overpower the other flavors of the drink.

Wow! What a refreshing cocktail - layered, complex, yet utterly harmonious. About the only way I would imbibe that wet of a martini. Substituted Regan's orange bitters & Dolin for the vermouth, as they were all I had on hand.

This was outstanding. When i read this, was not sure how well it would blend, but very balanced and nicely dry.

Very much what I would think a cocktail from the mid 1800s would taste like. The alcohol quality was a bit questionable back then and this would have softened any off tastes. Going in my favourties.

It is a complex flavor profile with nothing out of proportion.
When this mellows a bit, it goes down very easy.

I think this is an interesting and complex cocktail! The Maraschino, Absinthe and orange flavors all combine together to make a, dare I say, candy-like background note. Not off-putting, but sweet and fruity, but still in the background while the super-wet martini takes front stage. This is a cocktail that needs to rest in the glass before drinking to allow the flavors to come together, but it's indeed an interesting variation on the vermouth-forward martini.

As a perusal of ingredients would lead you believe -- dry vermouth forward. Not a preference for my palate. Wife is more of a fan but she only said, "Interesting." Which is usually a codeword for "I will drink it, but do not need another."